Tina Makereti
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
Looking for joy
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
Writer: www.tinamakereti.com
Creative Writing Workshop: https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters
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Tina Makereti
@tinamakereti.bsky.social
· Oct 21
The Mires at Shakespeare & Co in Paris and Hatchards display at the Cheltenham Lit Festival. I can't be in those places so I am very grateful for friends who are! But golly I wish I could be in those places...
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Jenny Bornholdt and Bill Manhire at number 1 and 2 on Unity Wellington’s bestseller list this week, followed by MA grad Eva Wyles, and only then George Saunders!
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending February 13
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending February 13
Two brilliant new poetry collections hit the Wellington charts this week....
thespinoff.co.nz
February 13, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Jenny Bornholdt and Bill Manhire at number 1 and 2 on Unity Wellington’s bestseller list this week, followed by MA grad Eva Wyles, and only then George Saunders!
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Under the previous govt the Wellington harbour would have 2 new purpose built ferries by now.
Under luxon the Wellington harbour just has poo in it.
Under luxon the Wellington harbour just has poo in it.
February 12, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Under the previous govt the Wellington harbour would have 2 new purpose built ferries by now.
Under luxon the Wellington harbour just has poo in it.
Under luxon the Wellington harbour just has poo in it.
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IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! ^MT
February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! ^MT
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Great news! The debut poetry collection by Kāi Tahu writer, musician, and NZ Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao is coming out 16 April. It's called Pepeha Portal, and will be published by Otago University Press · Te Whare Tā o Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
oup.nz/library/pepe... #pukapuka #booksky ^DR
oup.nz/library/pepe... #pukapuka #booksky ^DR
Pepeha Portal - Otago University Press
shining like light on water a path for the next generation From ‘Intonation’ Pepeha Portal is the keenly anticipated debut poetry collection from New Zealand Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao. Rooted in Kāi ...
oup.nz
February 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Great news! The debut poetry collection by Kāi Tahu writer, musician, and NZ Arts Laureate Ariana Tikao is coming out 16 April. It's called Pepeha Portal, and will be published by Otago University Press · Te Whare Tā o Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka.
oup.nz/library/pepe... #pukapuka #booksky ^DR
oup.nz/library/pepe... #pukapuka #booksky ^DR
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Are you a fan of #nzbooks? Tune in to our latest ep of SERVED WITH RICE to hear our convo with former NZ Poet Laureate @chrisjtse.bsky.social — it’s a great ep 🥰 Don’t forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe!
New episode of SERVED WITH RICE now available, guest starring the wonderful @chrisjtse.bsky.social 🥰
Check it out on your fave podcast platform here: servedwithricepoddy.com/watch
Check it out on your fave podcast platform here: servedwithricepoddy.com/watch
February 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Are you a fan of #nzbooks? Tune in to our latest ep of SERVED WITH RICE to hear our convo with former NZ Poet Laureate @chrisjtse.bsky.social — it’s a great ep 🥰 Don’t forget to like, comment, share, and subscribe!
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"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh
February 11, 2026 at 12:36 PM
"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh
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Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
Lyrical Ballads
Bill Manhire has always subscribed to Paul Valéry’s definition of poetry as ‘a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense’. In that spirit, many of the poems in this new, dazzling collection blend s...
teherengawakapress.co.nz
February 11, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Lyrical Ballads by Bill Manhire is a work of stone-cold beauty and genius. Thank you @thwupbooks.bsky.social & @pacificraft.bsky.social
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
teherengawakapress.co.nz/products/lyr...
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This weird obsession right wingers have about how long it takes to count votes in NZ is so weird man what difference does it make? We are globally insignificant our election results don’t move the markets. You got something important to do that hinges on election results just go live your life 🙄
February 11, 2026 at 7:10 AM
This weird obsession right wingers have about how long it takes to count votes in NZ is so weird man what difference does it make? We are globally insignificant our election results don’t move the markets. You got something important to do that hinges on election results just go live your life 🙄
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Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
The Projection Machine: Epstein's Intellectual Network and the War on Trans People
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
culture-centered.blogspot.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Anti-trans hate is an industry. Not a movement, not a moral concern, not an organic uprising of worried parents — an industry, deliberately constructed, lavishly funded, & strategically deployed to protect the interests of the powerful men who finance it
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...
Ugh autocorrect SUBVERSIVE thinking
February 11, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Ugh autocorrect SUBVERSIVE thinking
Ah the thrill of a new class. Each year I’m humbled by my students - such a wealth of diverse experience and thrillingly subversion thinking. The best antidote to the hellscape outside - not just a balm but active strengthening of resistance & critical thought #creativity @modernletters.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Ah the thrill of a new class. Each year I’m humbled by my students - such a wealth of diverse experience and thrillingly subversion thinking. The best antidote to the hellscape outside - not just a balm but active strengthening of resistance & critical thought #creativity @modernletters.bsky.social
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MA grad Gina Butson, whose novel The Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds was published last year, is in The SpinOff’s Books Confessional thespinoff.co.nz/books/04-02-...
‘Definitely not dystopia’: Gina Butson’s favourite books
'I read a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction when I was young and I think I reached my limit.'
thespinoff.co.nz
February 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
MA grad Gina Butson, whose novel The Stars are a Million Glittering Worlds was published last year, is in The SpinOff’s Books Confessional thespinoff.co.nz/books/04-02-...
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My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass.
It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.
I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.
Please share this...(1)
It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.
I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.
Please share this...(1)
February 2, 2026 at 4:39 AM
My wife and I were on a beach in the Wellington area and found this at a car park, in the grass.
It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.
I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.
Please share this...(1)
It is approximately the size of a person's hand,made of bone, and intricately carved.
I've masked the lower half,as only the legitimate owner will be able to fully describe it.
Please share this...(1)
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And every time you use ChatGPT, an artist dies a little.
'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why
A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now
www.thetimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:42 AM
And every time you use ChatGPT, an artist dies a little.
Exactly. That’s where it begins and then it just keeps going…
January 30, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Exactly. That’s where it begins and then it just keeps going…
Haha it’s a long list 🙏🏽🌞
January 29, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Haha it’s a long list 🙏🏽🌞
Also, one of our staff members, haha… #ThisCompulsioninUs
Congrats to Ingrid Horrocks (Writer in Residence 2024/staff 2026, Fiction), to IIML grads Catherine Chidgey (Fiction), Greg Kan, Tusiata Avia (Writer in Residence 2026), and Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Poetry), and to the English Dept’s Anna Jackson (Poetry)!
Jacinda Ardern longlisted for this year’s Ockham New Zealand book awards
January 29, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Also, one of our staff members, haha… #ThisCompulsioninUs
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If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
Another London, by Hari Kunzru
Excavating the disenchanted city
harpers.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM
If you want a break from snow or ICE, I have a #longread in the current @harpers.bsky.social about a mystical drift through London. Includes Blake, Hawksmoor, the Sex Pistols, Derek Jarman, John Dee and conversations with Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair harpers.org/archive/2026...
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life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
January 22, 2026 at 8:26 AM
life ending and infrastructure destroying floods are now an annual occurrence in new zealand. there is no political recognition of this new reality, and thus there is no resourcing for its prevention. we are not ready
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stripped of its meaning, will produce people who are stripped of their history, of their meaning..."
true also, crucially true, in America where today it so tragically seems that "history" itself is being revised to fit a new political stratagem, if not erased entirely.
true also, crucially true, in America where today it so tragically seems that "history" itself is being revised to fit a new political stratagem, if not erased entirely.
January 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
stripped of its meaning, will produce people who are stripped of their history, of their meaning..."
true also, crucially true, in America where today it so tragically seems that "history" itself is being revised to fit a new political stratagem, if not erased entirely.
true also, crucially true, in America where today it so tragically seems that "history" itself is being revised to fit a new political stratagem, if not erased entirely.
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at the essay's conclusion Hari Kunzru quotes Alan Moore: "It is so important to reenchant these places that we live in, to give back the energies that have been bled out of them. An empowered landscape creates empowered people. A disempowered landscape, stripped of its history,
January 18, 2026 at 4:40 PM
at the essay's conclusion Hari Kunzru quotes Alan Moore: "It is so important to reenchant these places that we live in, to give back the energies that have been bled out of them. An empowered landscape creates empowered people. A disempowered landscape, stripped of its history,
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The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
January 15, 2026 at 7:43 AM
The UK has declined a new Elbit Systems contract, leading Palestine Action prisoners to end the hunger strike that had three of them on the brink of death. The Tesco worker suspended for refusing to handle Israeli goods has been reinstated and will no longer have to handle them. We can and will win
Chilling and completely convincing final line
The brilliant Louise Adler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Chilling and completely convincing final line
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look at this charming tauhou / waxeye nest found under a tree, presumably blown out or dislodged by a possum.
horse hair, pig hair (?), moss, small twigs & A FULL HYDRANGEA FLOWER woven in. bless
(photo by anna-lisa gilmore, posted in fb group birds of new zealand. shared here with her permission)
horse hair, pig hair (?), moss, small twigs & A FULL HYDRANGEA FLOWER woven in. bless
(photo by anna-lisa gilmore, posted in fb group birds of new zealand. shared here with her permission)
January 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
look at this charming tauhou / waxeye nest found under a tree, presumably blown out or dislodged by a possum.
horse hair, pig hair (?), moss, small twigs & A FULL HYDRANGEA FLOWER woven in. bless
(photo by anna-lisa gilmore, posted in fb group birds of new zealand. shared here with her permission)
horse hair, pig hair (?), moss, small twigs & A FULL HYDRANGEA FLOWER woven in. bless
(photo by anna-lisa gilmore, posted in fb group birds of new zealand. shared here with her permission)